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Asia’s First Osmotic Power Plant Runs 24/7 on Nothing But Fresh Water and Seawater
(www.zmescience.com)
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I remember reading a paper about this, iirc you can pair these things together and get a net positive gain of fresh water and energy. Its not a lot but technically you can compound it repeatedly by building more and more. You can also use fresh wastewater and purify it later down the road, so its more of an all in one solution for the water and (some) energy needs of a city. It also solves a problem of desalination being energy intensive, so in many areas this sort of combined technology could simply solve water scarcity.
Yeah this is really cool tbh. It seems (napkin math) in this case the power generation is only at most like half the capacity needed to desalinate the amount of water that plant processes (100kW output capacity vs 55 m^3 of water at ~5 kWh/m3 = 278 kW) but even that is a pretty major game changer and if it can scale like you're saying....